In 1935 she published her third novel, Down by the Salley Gardens, the story of Adrian Dishart, a young man who falls in love with Mrs Holden, a woman fifteen years his senior.

"[2] By 1939, Noble had been promoted to the role of London story editor for 20th Century Fox, buying and negotiating film rights for production.

It was the story of the lonely and depressed Simon Hart, who after an attempted suicide off the Thames Bridge takes up the life of his drowned rescuer.

She replaced Winifred Nerney as the head of the all female staffed, London based office which handled the publication of British authors into the US market.

[6] During her time as the London-based editor, Doubleday was publishing authors like Margery Allingham, Daphne de Maurier, Edith Pargeter and Ruth Rendell.